#夢中人 ⠀ by ⠀ FAYE⠀ WONG

[vivrosita]

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[venuscaotico]

⠀ #⃝ ूूूੂ ̩͙ ✧̩͙̾͒ ⠀ 🖥️

━─ ⠀ ⠀ ♥︎ ⠀ 製造這次興奮

[nonenglishsongs]

王菲 - 夢中人

Thursday's Cover's Day! | Faye Wong - Mèng zhōng rén ("Dreams", Cantonese)

[fayewongfuzao]

I transcribed most of the parts that mention Faye.

Who is Faye Wong?

Earlier in Faye Wong's career, people wanted her to be anything but herself.

Because she was from the Mainland, they tried to force her to have this Hong Kong personality because they were worried that Hong Kong audiences wouldn't accept someone who was from the Mainland.

Wong's handlers gave her an anglicized name: Shirley Wong

She didn't enjoy it. She felt forced into a fake version of herself.

But none of that apparently bothered Wong Kar-wai. Because he saw an edge that her handlers had been trying to sand away.

He was very much taken with Faye Wong who's an interesting figure because she was a Mainlander and she had a particular aura that he thought was interesting. She seemed cooler than the people in Hong Kong cause there's something kinda otherworldly about her. And in fact, she seemed cooler.

Cooler than even the Hong Kongese who think of themselves as the coolest.

Yeah, you look at her and you think 'oh that's the cool person'.

He [Wong Kar-wai] could see it and that's part of his gift.

Faye Wong with the fake persona she hated was figuring out what was next for her.

She disappeared for some time and she went to study in New York.

She roamed The Big Apple for a few months and said: 'I saw so many strange, confident looking people. They didn't care what other people thought of them.'

And then when she came back, she became a different person.

In 1993, she dropped the LP, "100,000 Whys" doing covers of songs from Western alt rockers like Tori Amos and throwing in some killer pop originals like this one called 'Flow Not Fly'.

The Hong Kong kids fell in love with her.

She was the huge rising star because it was so cool to be a fan of Faye Wong.

She was like the Nirvana of that moment.

When you mention Nirvana, I remember the way she dressed at the time. She was wearing all these grungy style clothes. And there was no internet at that time so I had no idea about Nirvana or the grunge music scene. And people were commenting 'How come Faye Wong dresses like this?'. They're not glamorous outfits that people would be expecting a Cantopop star to be wearing.

You know a lot of people obviously try to entertain and that's great. But with Faye Wong, you had to come to her. She just did her thing. She couldn't be put in a box.

In other words, Hong Kongers finally saw what Wong Kar-wai had seen years before: a Mainlander who out-cooled them all. Something totally modern which made her and her music the perfect fit for the director's next movie - a snapshot of modern Hong Kong in 1994.

Chungking Express

Story #2 featured a food server on hip Hong Kong Island played by Faye Wong, named Faye, and was like real life Faye in every way the music audience would probably recognize.

The movie-Faye dreams of leaving Hong Kong for the West. She's constantly blasting The Mamas and the Papas 'California Dreamin' like Faye Wong, movie-Faye does leave for the West. And like Faye Wong, movie-Faye also comes back changed.

Now she's an airline attendant and she's come to pay a visit to a guy she was obsessed with but never quite dated played by Tony Leung.

"WHERE DO YOU WANT TO GO?" she asks him.

"WHEREVER YOU WANT TO TAKE ME." says Tony.

Will they stay in Hong Kong? Will they go? Instead of telling us, Wong Kar-wai smash cuts to the end credits, accompanied by Faye Wong's cover of a different song about dreaming.

Her version of The Cranberries tune is called 'Dream Lover'. It's as joyful as the original with Cantonese lyrics that add a hint of trepidation. They're about waiting to fall into a long kiss with an enticing stranger.

It could be movie-Faye singing to Tony.

'Dream Lover' came out a month before the movie debuted. The tune was already a smash. But now the tune was about to get bigger.

Chungking Express Goes Global

And the other thing international audiences took from the film? Faye Wong.

In that great sequence when she's at the snack bar and she's dancing to California Dreamin', the first time it ever played in North America at The Toronto Film Festival, after she finished dancing, the crowd applauded because it was such a magical sequence. And people came out thinking: 'Who is that woman?'

That's the other thing about Faye Wong. Hardened film critics came out thinking 'Who was that?'

For sure, Chungking Express was a great introduction of her to a much bigger international stage. She became quite popular in Japan thanks to the film. And so she did quite a few concerts in Japan and she did the themesong of Final Fantasy the video game. So she was that big.

Noel Hogan of The Cranberries

And as for 'Dreams', after Faye Wong's cover blew up in Hong Kong in 1994, Noel Hogan and his band had some inkling it was out there.

"We knew it happened and kinda forgot about it because we were so busy touring. But then bit by bit you'd kinda hear that 'Dreams' had taken off in this country and that country . But it really really didn't hit until we went to Hong Kong and later to China that we saw the full impact of it and how big it was."

"We were absolutely shocked."

Turns out Faye Wong had popularized 'Dreams' and the band who'd written it.

Emma Lee Moss (on her cover)

"It's just such a crowd-pleaser. People are like 'oh i know that song'. It takes them awhile to figure out what it is. Unless you're in Hong Kong, in which they know exactly what you're doing."

"Everywhere you go, there's someone who loves Faye Wong. I played in China and I couldn't communicate with anyone because my Mandarin was so terrible. But the moment we started talking about Faye Wong, we're talking in Faye Wong song titles. That's how we were communicating."

An Irish kid writes a song in his room. A Mainlander sings it to Hong Kong. Then a movie sends her music everywhere.

(SOURCE: MUBI PODCAST)

[madc0w]

王菲 Faye Wong -《夢中人》(Official Music Video) [HD]

[inashoe]

RULES: put 5 songs you actually listen to, then tag 10 people.

I was tagged by @gosiksmallspace <3 Thank you!

Laura Jane Grace - Long Dark Night

Xana - Better Kind Of Best Friend

王菲 Faye Wong - 《夢中人》

Tom Waits - Yesterday Is Here

陳雪燃 Xueran Chen - 《國王與騎士》

OK, I'm gonna tag @bookgeekgrrl, @nettropolis, @whoisthatmovinginthedark, @stripedroseandsketchpads, @sugarbabywenkexing, aaaand that's it. I'd love to read (and listen to) your answers. Absolutely no pressure, though!

[sehnis]

top songs december 2023

Aiga qarap // Sadraddin

Arahja // Kult

Ullaanguaq // Inuk

Краски // FEDUK

Howl at the Moon // NIDALA

Intifada On The Dance Floor // Bashar Murad

Naasunnguusunga // Naja P

Nalunngilara // Nikolaj Lønstrup

Hadi Bakalım // Sezen Aksu

Dio Tebe // Laufer

夢中人 // Faye Wong

อย่าดีกว่า // Micro

Besprizornik (Беспризорник) // Hi-Fi

She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not // TAEMIN

Fuck Em Only We Know // BANKS

I si demà no tornara // Obrint Pas

Mere Khwabon Mein // Lata Mangeshkar

All The World Is Green // Tom Waits

Алча // Тата Улан

Бэнгер // FEDUK

Smoke (Prod. Dynamicduo, Padi) // Dynamicduo, Lee Young Ji

Bingol // Rewşan

ANT // Sadraddin

Холодні очі // Улица Восток

Not Over You // TAEMIN

Аңсарым // Qurmash Makhan

Gvlseydixan // 阿力普

Then Came The Last Days of May // Blue Öyster Cult

Prašau // Šuo Leila

Lamento Boliviano // Los Enanitos Verdes

Chah Makan // Fataneh

Rendezvous // Jenevieve

Cool With You // NewJeans

Sni Bong // Dengue Fever

Bitch Better Have My Money // Rihanna

Night Away // TAEMIN

Karadaidu // 阿力普

Nedelja ujutru // Buč Kesidi

Blue // TAEMIN

Dio Tebe // NOLA

Leave It All Behind // Bumpy

Estrechez De Corazón // Los Prisioneros

River Days // South Summit

Zkamenělý dítě // Lucie

Liquid Smooth // Mitski

Странные танцы // Technology

Your Love // The Outfield

Prietena ta // Olga Verbitchi

Девочка в платице белом // Musicola

Bloody Samaritan // Ayra Starr

[vivrosita]

͏⏝ི ✿ㅤㅤ👜📑🖥️#️⃣ 𓊆ྀི𒋲𓊇ྀི ࿔ ̥°̩̥˚̩̩̥͙♡̵̼͓̥͒̾͘⠀ 夢中人

[corviddreams]

王菲 Faye Wong -《夢中人》Official MV (HD) As much as I fangirl The Cranberries, Faye Wong’s version of this song just blows me away. 

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

Tagged by @bromios

Sweet, I rarely get tagged in these things!

Last Song: Faye Wong’s cover of “Dreams” by The Cranberries (I just saw Chungking Express)

Currently Watching: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Currently Reading: Little Rabbit - Alyssa Songsiridej and Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - Audre Lorde

Current ObsessionS: Boygenius, Janelle Monae, queer film, 90s nostalgia, summer in Boston, and looking forward to when I don’t have laryngitis & a cold anymore.

Tagging @ode-on-a-grecian-butt, @worldslargestfrog, @yourlocallygrowngay, @the-home-kvetch, @shrodingersboobs

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United States of America 🇺🇸

Hongkong 중앙로 칠성로 상가 *****

그렇게 혼자서 돈벌다가는 시집 못 간다 결혼 20년 계약 성혼도 다 때가 있는법

종업원 을 두고 종업원에게 맡기고 연애 사랑 애 만들러 다녀야지 혼자서 국수삶고 혼자서 서빙하고 혼자서 설겆이 하면 좋은 때 혼사 놓친다

기업이 왜 종업원 수를 기하급수적으로 늘리겠어 인건비거든 월급 때마다 흑수 돈 들어오는데 -한라일보

그런데 1인 기업 해봐야 저축은행 금고 창구 수준인데 좋은때 놓치고 늙으막에 뭘 어쩌자고 몸매 늘씬하고 쭉쭉빵빵 일때가 재산인데

근처에 노는 백수 중국 부자들 얼마나 많은데

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